1/5: A thread on Covington & Burlington— On January 1, 1919, former U.S. Judge Harry Covington and his friend Edward Burling launched a Washington, D.C. law firm. - ThreadSky

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johnqbarrett.bsky.social • 12 days ago

1/5: A thread on Covington & Burlington—
On January 1, 1919, former U.S. Judge Harry Covington and his friend Edward Burling launched a Washington, D.C. law firm.

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johnqbarrett.bsky.social•12 days ago

2/5: As their law practice succeeded and the firm grew, Ned Burling was the partner who hired younger men to join them. In the firm’s third year, he hired a lawyer named Dean Acheson.

johnqbarrett.bsky.social•12 days ago

3/5: More than forty years later, in 1966, Mr. Burling died at age 96. At a memorial service for him in the Washington Cathedral, Dean Acheson, by then a former U.S. Secretary of State, delivered one of the eulogies.

johnqbarrett.bsky.social•12 days ago

4/5: Acheson said that Burling’s greatest interest, outside of family, was C&B. “He was interested in everybody in it.” And he was most interested in whether its lawyers were “interested in their clients”—he wanted to know that each lawyer in the firm was “doing a lawyer’s job for a client…”

johnqbarrett.bsky.social•12 days ago

5/5: Excellent, loyal, unfaltering legal representation for the client—that was and is every lawyer’s job.

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